Friends of Friends
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 912014821
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Langley, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3606300516
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health Support Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $186,507
- Expenses
- $153,866
- Assets
- $272,489
- Liabilities
- $2,587
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kathy Hein (President)
- Katie Steward (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Kathy Hein (President)
- MaryJane Lungren (Director)
- Katie Steward (Vice President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Friends of friends medical support fund (fof) is a community -supported fund offering financial help to people on south whidbey island with medically-related bills they cannot afford to pay. Qualifying medical costs include: prescription drugs, doctor, dentist, medical laboratory tests, x-rays, mammograms, and hospital bills. The fund will also assist with transportation expenses (via gas vouchers and ferry tolls), medical supplies and equipment as prescribed. Dollar limits (per individual) are set on an annual basis and all funds are paid directly to providers. Fof is a primarily volunteer based organization and does not provide casework, medical advise or medical referrals.
What it reported doing in 2025
Friends of friends medical support assisted over 195 people in 2025 totaling $131,053 in direct payments made to various health services/providers and for costs associated with transportation to medical appointments.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.4%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.5%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.77; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.4% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $131K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.